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A few laced genes: women's standpoint in the feminist ancestry of Dorothy E. Smith

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This article looks at the feminist activism of particular women in the ancestry of the eminent Canadian sociologist, Dorothy E. Smith, and at the archival data that confirm the traces of their influence found in her theory-building. Using the method of interpretative historical sociology and a conceptual framework drawn from Marx called the `productive forces', the article examines the feminist theology of her Quaker ancestor, Margaret Fell, and the militant suffrage activism of her mother and her grandmother, Dorothy Foster Place and Lucy Ellison Abraham, respectively. The article argues that the household labour of the remarkable women in her family line became a `productive force' that facilitated her imagining of the feminist theory, `the standpoint of women'.

Key Words: Margaret Fell • feminist standpoint • historical sociology • militant suffragettes • Dorothy E. Smith theory

History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 22, No. 2, 22-57 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0952695108101285


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